SUVs - Whats the point?
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Hungrymc said:
Comes back to the attributes you want and the compromises that these often contradictory attributes drive.
That's fair enough comment. I think derision is also levelled at SUVs because the moniker is actually, well, largely misleading. The name hopes to give rise to the understanding that these vehicles offer sporting performance and are a more practical everyday vehicle. The largest may be, of course, but they're not the ones that sell by the thousands in the UK. Actually the title 'SUV' is an aspirational lifestyle title thought up by ad men and doesn't describe the ugly little cars with a little bit more room and bigger wheels that are purchased by pensioners and husbands for their wives at all.popeyewhite said:
That's fair enough comment. I think derision is also levelled at SUVs because the moniker is actually, well, largely misleading. The name hopes to give rise to the understanding that these vehicles offer sporting performance and are a more practical everyday vehicle. The largest may be, of course, but they're not the ones that sell by the thousands in the UK. Actually the title 'SUV' is an aspirational lifestyle title thought up by ad men and doesn't describe the ugly little cars with a little bit more room and bigger wheels that are purchased by pensioners and husbands for their wives at all.
Wasn't the monicker "SUV" something that came from the USA to describe rubbish cars like the Jeep!Granfondo said:
Wasn't the monicker "SUV" something that came from the USA to describe rubbish cars like the Jeep!
You may well be right (not sure about the Jeep though, unless you mean larger versions). Originated in the USA to describe lifestyle and true 4x4 stuff like the Station Wagon and other huge vehicles, now used over here for much smaller runarounds.popeyewhite said:
Granfondo said:
Wasn't the monicker "SUV" something that came from the USA to describe rubbish cars like the Jeep!
You may well be right (not sure about the Jeep though, unless you mean larger versions). Originated in the USA to describe lifestyle and true 4x4 stuff like the Station Wagon and other huge vehicles, now used over here for much smaller runarounds.Since then the problem is that technology has developed such that the criteria above are very much old hat, so that you can have vehicles which are very capable off road which have none of those criteria, yet achieve those extreme off road capabilities in other ways.
Couple that with a downward trend for vehicles that have some of the features, eg high ground clearance, similar body style but with much more basic underpinnings.
It's this group which have caused some of the scornful outpourings seen here.
Is that scorn warranted? I'd say no, let people have what they choose to have regardless of the reasons behind that choice. In other words STFU and close the thread.
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